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Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 pm - by Matt Campbell. Filed under: Education, Politics.
Last night millions of Americans posted their real time reactions to the Vice Presidential Debate on their Twitter accounts. WHYY tracked Philadelphia area micro-bloggers and re-posted their comments on our website. After reviewing the list, I felt compelled to share with you some of the best I saw. So here’s the top 10 from the It’s Our City Debate Twitter event.
1 jesslaw screw the debate, PHILS WON!!!!!!
2 duganinja Team of mavericks? That’s an oxymoron like the lone ranger!
3 lynnbailey Is she winking at me?
4 nomad00 RT @djstangl if McCain is a Maverick that means he’s an unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother
5 jstogdill I’m gonna need my run on sentence decoder ring. Say what
6 heldincontempt Did he just say “Bosniacs
7 polexa are bosniacs related to wozniaks?
8 jkholland The mic just caught Biden taking a deep, cleansing, “This woman will NOT make you lose your cool” breath. Good for him
9 katintherat #vpdebate #current Next up: Palin appreciates diversity because she has a black friend
10 charlesthomas Watching the debate- one questionin, and so far Sarah Palin hasn’t f***ed it up. My expectations have been exceeded. #debate
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October 3rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Sigh. It fascinates me that so many people are unfamiliar with the term Bosniak, which is the word for Bosnian Muslims, and instead of actually looking it up, they act like it’s a made-up word that should be mocked. C’mon, guys. You’re embarrassing yourselves.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Thank you so much Sasha. I had never heard the term Bosniak till last night. But I looked up the term Bosniak in the CIA World Fact Book. For Bosnia and Herzegovina, it has this description of the ethnic breakdown. “Bosniak 48%, Serb 37.1%, Croat 14.3%, other 0.6% (2000) note: Bosniak has replaced Muslim as an ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with the religious term Muslim - an adherent of Islam.” Bravo Sasha!